The Digital Library

A collection of instructional and professional learning resources by educators for educators.

The Digital Library contains nearly 3,000 resources aligned to college- and career-ready standards to help educators improve teaching and learning. The library is collaborative and interactive, allowing users to rate materials and share their expertise with other educators in online forums. Educators can use the Digital Library to find:

Instructional resources that include ideas, activities, and lessons that can be infused into classroom instruction,

Collections of Instructional Resources—called Playlists—that represent a progression in skills or understanding for a topic, and

Professional Learning resources that focus on topics for educator professional development.

The Digital Library provides resources that support educators with formative assessment: a deliberate process teachers use during instruction to gain actionable feedback so that they can adjust their teaching strategies to improve students’ attainment of curricular learning targets/goals.

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Using the Digital Library

Playlists: Time-Saving Tools for Teachers

A Playlist is a collection of resources in the Digital Library that address a progression in skills or understanding for a topic. They are created by carefully trained educators. There are three types of Playlists available to educators:

Connections Playlists are a type of Instructional Playlist that are built based on student performance on Interim Assessment Blocks (IABs). Digital Library resources are selected and organized based on the specific achievement categories for an IAB. More information about Connections playlists is available below.

Professional Learning Playlists are collections of resources in the Digital Library that focus on educator professional development.

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Connections Playlists

Created by expert educators in collaboration with Smarter Balanced, Digital Library Connections link student performance on IABs to resources in the Digital Library. Educators can use these connections to find relevant and useful instructional supports that are aligned to students’ needs. Read more in this Digital Library Connections Overview (PDF), or explore the following playlists.

Learn more about Connections available in your grade and subject:

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Links to the Digital Library require an account for access. Accounts are available to educators in subscribing states/territories.